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June 20th, 2012 at 02:48 pm

I am thinking that I am going to try to get enough Swagbucks saved up to get the $300 Apple gift card. Since DD's Mac Book for college (she is just finishing her sophomore year of high school) will likely cost $1000, and I am saving $100 a month for it. It would be nice to be able to get $300 knocked off the price just by doing this. I just wish the points per value ratio wasn't so high. The amazon or other electronic store ones use far less points for gift certificates but she doesn't want a PC based laptop. She wants to be able to do a lot of photo and video editing.

Speaking of photo editing, does anyone know of a good free program for that that actually comes with instructions on how to use it. I've tried using Gimp but it is fairly unhelpful in the instructions department. I don't need anything fancy. I just want to be able to shrink photos to smaller sizes than what my camera produces so that they don't take over my entire LJ page. I will eventually be getting something like Photo Shop, but right now I am looking for something that is as friendly as say Open Office.

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4 Responses to “Swagbucks”

  1. Analise Says:
    June 20th, 2012 at 04:56 pm 1340211379
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    I don't understand the point structure on Swagbucks... they want too many points for GCs of higher values (>$25). For example, a $25 Amazon GC is 3150 points. But since you can get a $5 GC for 450 points, FIVE $5 GC would only be 2250 points. So the better deal is to get multiple $5 GCs and use fewer points. I always get the $5 Amazon card and bank it in my Amazon account where GCs never expire. I have gotten many Apple products through Amazon.

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    June 20th, 2012 at 05:40 pm 1340214022
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    @Analise, there is a max of five $5 Amazon gift cards per month. Some people actually earn enough to get the $50 gift card in the same month they redeem their five $5 gc's.

  3. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    June 23rd, 2012 at 04:03 am 1340424202
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    @Analise - the way I've heard it is that SBs gets a discount price on the $5 gift cards, so that is why they are such a better deal than other value amounts.

    @LR - Can't you buy Macs on Amazon??

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
    June 24th, 2012 at 01:21 am 1340500912
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    Yes, I can buy Macs on Amazon, but I did not know that when I posted this post. I figured Apple had a tighter hold on their stuff than that. Guess not. So I will be using the Amazon cards instead and banking them.

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